A script for auto-configuring saned network connections

Posted by jhansonxi on Oct 8, 2010 7:04 AM EDT
Stubborn Tech Problem Solving; By jhansonxi
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Host-connected image scanners can be shared through saned (part of sane-utils in Ubuntu). It can be run continuously as a daemon or on-demand through Inetd. Basic configuration for either mode is simple and generic but adding the network address to the saned.conf file in CIDR notation is not. When you are setting up systems for multiple clients on different networks and IP ranges, this is a bit of a nuisance. To automate this I wrote saned-subnet-conf which will automatically add an entry for whatever network the host connects to through Network Manager or the ifupdown utilities directly.

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